The Diocese of Leeds has the largest church programme of choral music for young people in the United Kingdom.
Our Choral Directors work with some 3500 children weekly (over 100 groups across 53 schools), returning to their bases to run our elite choirs; 6 boys’ choirs, 6 girls’ choirs, 5 mixed children’s choirs, 2 youth choirs, 3 university choirs and an adult choir, all drawing their membership from our school sessions. more »

To many I might be a familiar face, as this is not the first time I have been employed by the Music Department. I graduated in 2011 from the University of Birmingham with a First Class Honours degree in Music, and was shortly after appointed as
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The Leeds Trinity Cathedral Boys’ and Girls’ Choirs had a busy second half of the term. They sang three times at Leeds Trinity University: for the All Saints’ Day Mass celebrated by Bishop Marcus, at the ‘Peace Jam’ conference featuring the Nobel Laureate,
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It has been a very busy 2017 for the newest branch of the Diocese of Leeds Schools Singing Programme. Choral Director for Wakefield and Pontefract, Charlotte Kitson, writes about the progress of the expansion of the Schools Singing Programme in to this area..
"Last Sunday, 10th December
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On Sunday the magnificent sound of Bradford Catholic Youth Choir and the professional singers and instrumentalists of the Gabrieli Consort echoed around St Joseph's Church. BCYC are the only Northern choir taking part in the Gabrieli's youth choir scheme, Gabrieli Roar, and joined the consort to
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Each week the Diocese of Leeds Music Department works with over 3500 children in primary and secondary schools across West and North Yorkshire. We deliberately target those communities where musical opportunities are at their scarcest to engage children in the life-changing gifts of
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On the morning of Sunday 5th November, members of the 100 strong Bradford Catholic Youth Choir - the majority of whom are at St Bede's and St Joseph's Catholic College and the primary schools in the Bradford and Keighley Catholic Schools Partnership - broadcast BBC Radio 4's Sunday Worship. The
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